Monday, May 14, 2012

Tomorrow, my almost-seventeen-year-old (sigh.) and I are going to get serious about studying "godly girlhood." Specifically, she's wanting to study the concepts behind courtship, the reasons that we reject the practice of dating, and how to prepare now for her future as a godly wife and mother. My plan is to blog as we go through various books, sermons, websites, etc., so I thought I'd begin this series on godly girlhood by posting our family's all-time favorite illustration on rejecting the practice of dating. Love, LOVE, L-O-V-E this. It's only two minutes long... give it a listen!

Monday, April 30, 2012

If you have never signed up to get weekly emails from Homeschool Freebie of the Day, you don't know what you're missing! They offer a new free resource on their website every weekday, and so every weekend, they send out an email giving you a heads up of what will be offered that week. You don't have to sign up for the weekly emails, but if you're like me, and suffer from "Forty Brain"salvation-related brain atrophy, it's very helpful. I can't trust myself to remember to look on their website each day, but having that email in my mailbox all week as a reminder helps me a lot!

Homeschool Freebie of the Day is currently running a contest in which three grand prize winners will each win a huge pile of homeschool goodies! If you're interested in entering to win, you can click through to the entry site here, and be sure to enter by Friday!

Saturday, April 28, 2012

What a relief to finally discover the real reason behind my inability to remember anything longer than five minutes! My friend Sherry calls it "forty brain," but now the truth has come out. Evidently salvation has caused my brain to atrophy! Warn all your friends and neighbors.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

I came across this quote today while working toward incorporating Hymn Study into our homeschooling. I'm linking to the two-part article here and here, although I (a) haven't read them fully, and (b) disagreed with at least one thing. But all disclaimers aside... wow! A lot of great stuff there! A few personal favorites:

"Hymns are theology on fire! We need solid theology rather than just a constant diet of fluff and fads."

"Hymns... cover a wider range of emotions than modern choruses. This is often a surprising point because we associate hymns with a lack of emotion and modern choruses with emotional excess at times. But a careful study will reveal that the emotional range touched on by modern choruses is really rather narrow."

"Hymns focus us on God's promises more than upon ours! We grow by feeding on God's character revealed and by feasting on His promises. Many modern choruses, with their almost constant emphasis on what we want to do, ("Lord I just want to...") fail to teach us to rely on God's love for us..."

What about you? Do you have any favorite sites that feature hymns, the history of specific hymns, and/or tips for studying hymns? Please leave a comment!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

A Hoke County preschooler was fed chicken nuggets for lunch because a state worker felt that her homemade lunch did not have enough nutritional value, according to a report by the Carolina Journal.

The West Hoke Elementary School student was in her classroom when a state agent who was inspecting lunch boxes decided that her packed lunch — which consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, a banana, apple juice and potato chips — “did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines,” the Journal reports.

The decision was made under consideration of a regulation put in place by the the Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs to meet USDA guidelines. "When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones,” the Journal reports.

The student’s mother told the Journal she received a note from the school about the incident and was charged $1.25 for the cafeteria tray, from which her daughter only ate three chicken nuggets. The note explained how students who did not bring “healthy lunches” would be offered the missing portions and that parents could be charged for the cost of the cafeteria food, the Journal reports. The mother, who was not identified in the report, expressed concern about school officials telling her daughter that she wasn’t “packing her lunch box properly.”

About Me

I am... a Christ follower. A wife. The mother of an adult married son. The stand-in mother to my niece and nephew. As of May 2010, a full time homemaker, after 21 years of working outside the home and dreaming of staying home! A homeschooling "mom" to my niece and nephew. An avid blog reader, who hopes to be self-disciplined enough to become an avid blogger. :)